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Sense of community

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Sense of community (or psychological sense of community) is a concept in community psychology, social psychology, and community social work, as well as in several other research disciplines, such as urban sociology, which focuses on the experience of community rather than its structure, formation, setting, or other features. [1]

37 relations: Amitai Etzioni, Anomie, Anthropologist, Attitude (psychology), Émile Durkheim, Communitarianism, Community, Community of interest, Community practice, Community psychology, Conceptual framework, Donation, Emotion, Empirical research, Factor analysis, Ferdinand Tönnies, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, Imagined community, Interdependence, Interpersonal relationship, Neighbourhood, Online participation, Perception, Promise, Psychologist, Psychology, Public administration, Questionnaire, Religious community, School, Seymour Sarason, Social psychology, Sociology, Solidarity, Theoretical definition, Understanding, Urban sociology.

Amitai Etzioni

Amitai Etzioni (born Werner Falk, 4 January 1929) is an Israeli-American sociologist, best known for his work on socioeconomics and communitarianism.

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Anomie

Anomie is a "condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals".

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Anthropologist

An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology.

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Attitude (psychology)

In psychology, attitude is a psychological construct, a mental and emotional entity that inheres in, or characterizes a person.

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Émile Durkheim

David Émile Durkheim (or; April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917) was a French sociologist.

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Communitarianism

Communitarianism is a philosophy that emphasizes the connection between the individual and the community.

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Community

A community is a small or large social unit (a group of living things) that has something in common, such as norms, religion, values, or identity.

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Community of interest

A community of interest, or interest-based community, is a community of people who share a common interest or passion.

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Community practice

Community practice also known as macro practice is a branch of social work in the United States of America that focuses on larger social systems and social change, and is tied to the historical roots of United States social work.

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Community psychology

Community psychology studies the individuals' contexts within communities and the wider society,Jim Orford, Community Psychology: Challenges, Controversies and Emerging Consensus, John Wiley and Sons, 2008 and the relationships of the individual to communities and society.

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Conceptual framework

A conceptual framework is an analytical tool with several variations and contexts.

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Donation

A donation is a gift for charity, humanitarian aid, or to benefit a cause.

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Emotion

Emotion is any conscious experience characterized by intense mental activity and a certain degree of pleasure or displeasure.

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Empirical research

Empirical research is research using empirical evidence.

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Factor analysis

Factor analysis is a statistical method used to describe variability among observed, correlated variables in terms of a potentially lower number of unobserved variables called factors.

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Ferdinand Tönnies

Ferdinand Tönnies (26 July 1855 – 9 April 1936) was a German sociologist and philosopher.

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Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, generally translated as "community and society", are categories which were used by the German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies in order to categorize social ties into two dichotomous sociological types which define each other.

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Imagined community

An imagined community is a concept developed by Benedict Anderson in his 1983 book Imagined Communities, to analyze nationalism.

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Interdependence

Interdependence is the mutual reliance between two or more groups.

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Interpersonal relationship

An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close association or acquaintance between two or more people that may range in duration from brief to enduring.

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Neighbourhood

A neighbourhood (British English), or neighborhood (American English; see spelling differences), is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area.

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Online participation

Online participation is used to describe the interaction between users and online communities on the web.

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Perception

Perception (from the Latin perceptio) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information, or the environment.

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Promise

A promise is a commitment by someone to do or not do something.

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Psychologist

A psychologist studies normal and abnormal mental states from cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior by observing, interpreting, and recording how individuals relate to one another and to their environments.

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Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.

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Public administration

Public Administration is the implementation of government policy and also an academic discipline that studies this implementation and prepares civil servants for working in the public service.

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Questionnaire

A questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions (or other types of prompts) for the purpose of gathering information from respondents.

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Religious community

A religious community is a community (group of people) who practice the same religion.

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School

A school is an institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students (or "pupils") under the direction of teachers.

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Seymour Sarason

Seymour Bernard Sarason (January 12, 1919, Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York – January 28, 2010, New Haven, Connecticut) was Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught from 1945 to 1989.

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Social psychology

Social psychology is the study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.

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Solidarity

Solidarity is unity (as of a group or class) which produces or is based on unities of interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies.

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Theoretical definition

A theoretical definition is an abstract concept that defines a term in an academic discipline.

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Understanding

Understanding is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object.

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Urban sociology

Urban sociology is the sociological study of life and human interaction in metropolitan areas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_community

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